Mac Terminal Recommendations

[joshualeond]

I'm testing out Term.jl and the docs look amazing. However, when running in the default terminal on Mac it doesn't appear the same as what I'm seeing in the docs. Is there a recommended alternative terminal app when using Term.jl or am I perhaps just having issues on my side?

Also, is there a recommended way to view a docstring using Term.jl?

Thanks,
Josh

[FedeClaudi]

Hi,

different terminals handle ANSI codes and some characters differently. A fancier alternative like iTerm should be able to do better. If you use VS Code it’s built in terminal is also great.

termshow(print) will show all methods and doc string for print (or most of it anyways). Or if you have the doc string as a markdown object (MD) you can use parse_md to render it (need Term 1.0.0) for both

[joshualeond]

Thanks so much! I'm testing it out in VS Code and now I'm seeing what I expected and it looks amazing.

One other question: Do you know why calling termshow(Normal) when using the Distributions.jl package returns the following instead of the docstring you get from the help mode in the REPL:

[FedeClaudi]

Nice!

It shouldn’t! I’m on holiday for a few days but will check when I can.

[joshualeond]

Sounds good, thanks for your work... this is really cool.